Hank: 5 Years from the Brink

Name: Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
Genre: Biography, Documentary, News
Released: January 31, 2014
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 56

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Bloomberg Business Week | Release Date: January 31, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: For three weeks in September 2008, one person was charged with preventing the collapse of the global economy. No one understood the financial markets better than Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. In Hank: Five Years from the Brink, Paulson tells the complete story of how he persuaded banks, congress and presidential candidatesFor three weeks in September 2008, one person was charged with preventing the collapse of the global economy. No one understood the financial markets better than Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. In Hank: Five Years from the Brink, Paulson tells the complete story of how he persuaded banks, congress and presidential candidates to sign off on nearly $1 trillion in bailouts - even as he found the behavior that led to the crisis, and the bailouts themselves, morally reprehensible.… Expand

Director: Joe Berlinger

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary, News

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 85 min

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Stephanie Merry

Feb 6, 2014

The documentary’s greatest strength is its ability to humanize Paulson. Read full review

Kyle Smith

Jan 30, 2014

This is a useful primer on what went wrong — and right — in 2008. Read full review

Daphne Howland

Jan 28, 2014

Joe Berlinger's Hank: 5 Years From the Brink is more workaday and less transfixing than projects of his like "Brother's Keeper" or "Paradise Lost." Read full review

Betsy Sharkey

Feb 13, 2014

For all of the substantive issues underpinning the documentary, it still feels a slight film for Berlinger, and very unlike the documentary veteran's best work, found in his dogged following of the West Memphis Three case. Read full review

Stephen Farber

Jan 30, 2014

None of the other economic gurus of the era is interviewed, so the film comes across as a 90-minute monologue, which is intriguing to a point but also wearying. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Jan 30, 2014

It’s informative but not enlightening, and Mr. Berlinger packs in chattering news clips and a score that’s audible under the interview. Read full review

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